Brad Renfro dead

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:44am

Actor Brad Renfro - former child star of such films as The Client and Tom and Huck, who battled drug abuse in recent years - has been found dead in Los Angeles.

He was 25.

A Los Angeles County Coroner's spokesman says Renfro's cause of death is under investigation.

"I can confirm that Brad Barron Renfro is deceased," spokesman Ed Winter told Reuters.

"He was found unresponsive in a residence ... Paramedics responded and he was pronounced dead at 9:00am (local time)."

Celebrity website TMZ.com reports that Renfro - who pleaded guilty in 2006 to charges of trying to buy heroin, just months after a picture of his arrest ran on the front page of the Los Angeles Times - had just finished filming a movie with Winona Ryder and Billy Bob Thornton.

Renfro made his film debut at the age of 12 as a young boy who knew too much in the 1994 John Grisham thriller The Client, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon.

The following year he earned notice for his role in The Cure.

After entering his guilty plea in February 2006, Renfro - who had a string of run-ins with the law - was ordered into a drug treatment program and placed on three years' probation.

[scott68]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:47am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=954595&boardname=off&dt=21&boardid=2

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:10am

Still?

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:25am

Whoops, sorry!